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From: cef@H.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Charles Fineman)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: (embaressed) withdrawal of my proposal
Message-ID: <241@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 01:28:19 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 27 01:28:19 1987
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Well folks,

  It seems that a lot of you knew something I didn't... syntax
tables are already buffer-local. All you have to do is call
(set-syntax-table <joe syntax table>) and your set. Apparently
I didn't read the documentation for set-syntax-table *before* I
made the proposal. 

WHAT I HAVE LEARNED:

  One may call "set-syntax-table" to set the syntax table for 
given buffer. Since what is being set is actually a pointer 
to the table instead of the table itself, one may modify the
syntax of a character in one buffer and that change will be 
reflected in all buffers currently using that syntax table
(as well as any that will in the future). This, by the way,
gives the *illusion* that a syntax table is MODE specific 
when it really is just BUFFER specific.


  Perhaps even more important, I learned that my faith in
usefulnes the on-line documentation with GNU emacs was well
founded. Unfortunately, I didn't use it in the first place {-). 

	Charles Fineman
	Carnegie-Mellon University
	cef@h.cs.cmu.edu (via seismo)